Dispute resolution

Expert opinions

Our lawyers are often invited to opine and act as Russian law experts in Russian and overseas litigations and arbitrations. A combination of strong academic background and voluminous experience as counsels in all types of disputes ensures a consistently high quality of expert reports. Our reputation warrants credibility and trustworthiness of the evidence given. Our ties to academic community allow access to reputable Russian and foreign law experts, whom we engage where appropriate.

 

Firm’s of counsel Alexander Yaglnitskiy is a renowned expert in private law, including property law, law of obligations, damages and specifically tort law and law of succession. He is an Associate Professor at the Department of Private Law at Lomonosov Moscow State University, where he delivers private law and tort law courses. He is also an Associate Professor at the Russian School of Private Law and a lecturer at the Moscow School of Social and Economic Sciences. Alexander is a member and Russian representative at the World Tort Law Society (WTLS). List of his publications and speeches covers many areas of Russian private law.

 

Firm’s partner Olesya Petrol lectures tort and family law courses at Lomonosov Moscow State University, and is also a lecturer at the Moscow School of Social and Economic Sciences. She is often invited to opine and speak on damages, family and inheritance law for domestic and overseas court hearings. She is also an expert in arbitration and contributes to the promotion of arbitration in Russia.

Work highlights

    • Authoring Russian law expert opinion on validity of assignment, submitted in Russian proceedings involving the largest Russian telecommunication company, submitted with an appellate Russian court and resulted in quashing the lower court judgment
    • Authoring Russian law expert opinion on liability of a parent company for obligations of a subsidiary in a damages dispute in connection with an alleged hostile business takeover, submitted in foreign proceedings
    • Authoring a Russian law expert opinion on the entitlement of the minor heirs of a deceased Russian wealthy individual to complex estate worldwide and on conflict of laws, at the request of a third-party funder
  • Authoring a Russian law expert opinion on jurisdiction of the Russian courts over a debt recovery dispute involving a BVI company
  • Contributing to opinion on state liability for actions of officials and on employer’s liability for actions of employees, submitted with the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation
  • Authoring Russian law expert opinion on child residence issues, for UK migration authorities
  • Authoring Russian law expert opinion on entitlement of the surviving spouse of a deceased, wealthy Russian individual to valuable English and Spanish assets, in connection with foreign probate proceedings